Scumbag Judge Gets 28 Years for Role in Scheme to Incarcerate Children for Profit

Judge Mark A. Ciavarella, 63, serves as an example of why the private prison industry can do more harm than good. Ciavarella worked alongside owners of private juvenile facilities to ensure that the prison remained occupied. The more prisoners equated to more profits for the owners of the prison.

As a result, Ciavarella would sentence offenders with small offenses to months and, at times, years behind bars. He once sentenced a teen to three months in jail for creating a MySpace page that mocked her school’s assistant principal. Ciavarella also sentenced another teen to 90 days in jail after a simple schoolyard fight.

But after a federal investigation, it was discovered that Ciavarella and his colleague, Judge Michael Conahan, received more than $2.6 million from privately run youth centers owned by PA Child Care. In 2011, Ciavarella was convicted of racketeering and sentenced to 28 years in prison. He was also forced to pay $1 million in restitution.

Most people who gloat about how men get raped in prison as part and parcel of “justice” get indignant when you suggest that perhaps that means their daughters should be raped as punishment for crime.

And they react that way for good reason.

I’m not sure what this former judge deserves in the way of punishment, but if I trusted the government to properly apply the Death Penalty (and I don’t), that would certainly be on the list for consideration.

Could not agree more. I think it is horrible in the extreme and should never happen under any circumstances.
My point was that these types of people within the system have no qualms whatsoever about about sentencing people to that very fate knowing full well that rape is part of the equation.
I was and am hoping for some karmic justice for this piece of shit. But, as I noted originally, he will more than likely be sent to a facility where rape does not happen.
Just because I think something is horrible and unjust does not mean I cannot wish it on such a deserving person.

I confess – I share the same desire for that human scum. That is not to say that I want to see it implemented, but that, his wrongs are so atrocious that I wish for him the worst thing I could imagine. Of course, when I think about it, I could get much more imaginative, but …

all of this is to say, such a thought comes as a reaction to the anger and sense of injustice. However, being a rational person, I can set aside my anger and deal rationally the issue at hand.

A rational judge would say: This person is irredeemable, having never had an epiphany as to the horrors of his crimes, or evidence thereof. As such, punishment is wasted, and its a simple matter of safety for the society at large. Such a person should never have contact with a society that he may imperil. As such, he should be sentenced to die of natural causes in a prison.

Yet those that paid the bribes and profited by abusing children.
Robert Mericle (co owner of the juvenile detention facility) – Federal prosecutors seek stiffer sentence, the changes, which must be approved by a judge, increase the sentencing guideline range from four to 10 months in prison, to 12 to 18 months.
Seriously WHAT THE FUCK?
It is in your interest to bribe government officials because when they get caught you get a slap on the wrist.